Some of these nations received the dedication more than once, such as Brazil, Haiti, Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic, while José Martí and the rest of the world were dedicated.
In the extensive list of tributes to the event that glorifies Caribbean and Latin American spirituality, there are also the 33 years of the attack on the Moncada Barracks carried out by Fidel Castro and young revolutionaries on July 26, 1953 and the hundredth Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery.
The first honor of the Jubilee corresponded in 1984 to the island of Grenada and its leader Maurice Bishop, who thus demonstrated his solidarity and fraternal vocation, expressed a year later among the people of Haiti as the guest of honor, who returned in 2004 with the motivation of the bicentenary of his Independence.
The Netherlands Antilles, Aruba and Suriname, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, the French-speaking, Anglophone, Colombian and Mexican Caribbean, Caricom, the Hispanic Footprint, the Diaspora, the Brazilian state of Pernambuco and the island of Curaçao were also viewers of the fire festival.
A look back at this altruistic gesture of the festival has in the 2009 edition, which would be dedicated to the Garífuna culture and the presence of the President of Honduras, Manuel Zelaya, would have the sad memory of the coup that frustrated the progressive government in the nation of Central America.
With the outbreak of Covid-19, 2020 saw a chapter paying tribute to the gathering itself, and in 2021 Belize received the veneration that in 2022 saw the 40th anniversary of the Casa del Caribe, the cultural institution it sponsors. .
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